UPDATE: Major Reinaldo L. Canton, Ret
SEX CHARGES DROPPED DUE TO SUSPECT’S ILL HEALTH
from the article by Ben Winslow – The Deseret News
Federal prosecutors have dropped an Internet sex case against a retired Air Force major because of his rapidly deteriorating health.
In court documents filed recently in U.S. District Court, retired Maj. Reinaldo Canton revealed that he had been diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition. The stress brought on by a trial will put him at risk of death, his attorney argued.
“If Mr. Canton is forced to continue with prosecution, either by entering a plea or preparing for trial, he will face numerous additional stressors, which will increase his blood pressure and likely lead to his death,” Canton’s attorney, Ben Hamilton wrote.
Canton was indicted in 2007 on a charge of coercion and enticement for illegal sexual activity, accusing him of traveling from New Mexico to the Layton Hills Mall, where he thought he would be meeting with a 15-year-old girl he had met on the Internet for a sexual encounter. The person he met on the Web was really an undercover police officer.
In court papers, Hamilton said that Canton was scheduled to enter into a plea deal with government prosecutors last year. But in a motion to dismiss the case, Hamilton revealed that as Canton was preparing to fly to Utah for a court hearing, he was rushed to the emergency room, where he was diagnosed with an “acute aortic dissection” — a tear in the inner layer of the aorta.
“It is my opinion that the stress of a courtroom trial, in Mr. Canton’s particular case, presents a real and specific hazard. Rupture of the residual aneurysm could be sudden and catastrophic, with clear risks of death, stroke, paralysis and loss of function and abdominal organs,” his doctor, Stuart Pett Jr., wrote in a letter to the court.
Hamilton argued that proceeding with prosecution violated Canton’s Fifth Amendment right to due process and that Canton was unable to assist in his defense.
“Ordering Mr. Canton to stand trial or undergo plea and sentencing proceedings would effectively be signing his death warrant,” Hamilton wrote.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah agreed to drop the case without prejudice, meaning prosecutors can refile the charge if circumstances surrounding Canton change. U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups signed an order on May 14 dismissing the case.
This information came to light thanks to another email from someone close to this case, requesting that we remove the original story about one of our All-Stars. In this case, the entire email consisted of this Haiku-like prose:
charges dropped.
officer retired and dying.
please respect the children
As you can see, the author left out some of the more important details. Whether this was intentional or not, I’m always suspicious of these requests, and through my research I found out about the dismissal of Reinaldo Canton’s charges due to health problems.
I can see why they want to hush this little “indiscretion” by the Major. He was a professor at the Air Force Academy at one time, and is a published author and expert on online learning. Rey-Rey was on his way to bigger and better things before his arrest.
But wait, stop the presses. I was just putting the finishing touches on the above update, when look what I found.
RETIRED AIR FORCE MAJOR CHARGED AGAIN
from the article by Ethan Thomas – The Deseret News
Charges were filed Tuesday against a retired Air Force major for allegedly attempting to meet a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl for a sexual encounter.
Retired Maj. Reinaldo L. Canton, 45, was charged in 3rd District Court with three counts of enticement of a minor, a class-A misdemeanor, after initially being arrested in April of 2007.
Canton, a resident of New Mexico, was indicted for the same incident in U.S. District Court in 2007, but the federal case was dismissed without prejudice in May after the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed to drop the case because of Canton’s deteriorating health.
Court documents filed in that case said that Canton had been diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition and his attorney argued that the stress brought on by a trial would put his life at risk.
As Canton was preparing to fly to Utah for a court hearing, he was rushed to a hospital emergency room, where he was diagnosed with an “acute aortic dissection” — a tear in the inner layer of the aorta, court documents said.
Though the case was originally dismissed, the Utah Attorney General’s Office feels that there are sufficient grounds to proceed with the case on the state level.
“If the defendant conceives that his health is an issue, he is free to raise it and attempt to support it with evidence,” Assistant Utah Attorney General Paul Amann said. “It remains to be seen what facts develop in a court of competent jurisdiction. In the federal context, the defendant’s unilateral assertions with respect to his health were not contested. There has been no independent analysis of his health.”
The charges filed Tuesday by the Attorney General’s Office detail an arranged sexual encounter between Canton and a person who, authorities say, he thought was a 15-year-old girl he had met on the Internet. The “girl” he had expected to meet actually was an undercover agent.
Canton was arrested on April 11, 2007 after FBI agents set up surveillance at a Layton mall, the designated meeting site for the encounter. Agents observed Canton and found that he matched photographs sent to the undercover agents during earlier chats, the charges said.
Imagine that?! It appears that the person who email us, requesting this man’s story be removed, completely forgot to tell me that the State of Utah had refiled the charges 4 months after the Federal Court had dropped them.
He must have forgotten, right? No one would intentionally lie about something like that just to have a story about a friend or family member removed, would they?
Would they?
Well, of fucking course they would, and did in this case. It’s a lie of omission, but a lie none the less, and as morally reprehensible as any told in defense of a probable sexual predator and pedophile.
It’s disgraceful, but more than that it’s infuriating, that a select group of people believe their personal feelings outweigh the rights of victim to receive justice for the abuses forced upon them. I don’t know if they’re driven by an inflated opinion of family honor, or a simple desire to not be associated with a sexual deviant, but they really burn my ass. This is selfishness in it’s most extreme form.
The only way to fight these people is to expose them to the light, so everyone can so who they are and what they’ve done. They’re like vampires – they just can’t stand to be out in the sun, where everyone can see what’s what.
Whether it’s the pedophile himself with his deviant desires, or the enablers, stuck in their denial, exposure is their Kryptonite. Today, maybe we took down one or two more.
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This is so disgusting to me, who cares if he was a officer and his health is in jepoardy? He was going to molest a kid and I empathetic to him. This is why these things are so out of control, pedophiles and internet sex predators get tiny little slaps on the wrist.
Okay… Lets get this straight… They are saying IF he goes to trial like a perverted monster that he is… This will end up killing him?
Am I the only one that doesn’t see the bad there?
I agree!
Umm, isn’t this a win-win? We prosecute, he dies from the “stress”?
textbook win win situation, pedophile out of commission and taxpayer money saved ! bring on the stress of a trial!!
Im with you!
Oh Max, I love your understated “They wouldn’t lie would they??”
And what is it with air force military men being perverts? (Canada’s Col Williams).
Hmmm… healthy enough to have sex with a 15 year old, but too unhealthy to stand trial?
BS.
I personnally don’t care if does drop dead during trial. One less pervert on the street. Not to hard to figure out this is just a ploy by the defense.
We all know damn good and well that this is most likely not the first time he had done this and if released he will do it again. YOU CANNOT FIX THESE PEOPLE!
What a load of bullshit! Who gives a damn if he’s to “sick” to go to trial. He would be doing the state a favor if he died during his trial. What a sick bastard. He is the reason I monitor my daughter’s internet activity so closely. I have every password to every account she has and a tracker on the computer she uses, no I don’t feel bad about it and yes I will continue doing it as long as she is in my home.
Good on you, Max. I like to know that you are reading all your email and responding in kind.
And I’m with Budgiegirl. How can we lose? Prosecute the fucker and inadvertently kill him.
So all the Big Macs and Marlboros I’ve had over the years may have a positive benefit?
I live right across the street from a Catholic church and gradeschool.
You know Miwist, I was just thinking the same thing. With my heart, I should be good to go for an assault with a deadly weapon at least, maybe even an attempted murder…
Fred Phelps and his big mouth daughter Shirley better watch their asses, because I have a heath condition – bwah-hah-hah-hah-hah!
Fred Phelps and his family of fuck ups disgust me. We have our own wannabe Phelps here in Amarillo that made national news last month or the month before. He runs repent Amarillo and runs around harassing people at their homes and place of business. He worked at the nuclear plant here in town and they fired his ass last month after they realized how psycho he was. Someone will eventually go after him, whoever it is I hope they have a heart problem to lol. I’ll be sure to send the defense laywer this case haha.
In all seriousness, I can’t believe this sick prick could get off for HEALTH issues. What a crock of shit!
I’m only about 2 1/2 hours from Topeka – I s’pose I could take care of Phelps.
They’re actually here in Omaha quite a bit. Shirley just recently had a court date not far from where I work – I missed my chance.
She came out on top, though. She has a First Amendment right to be a fucking, hateful cunt. God Bless America.
Some guy in Omaha tried spraying Phelps and family with bear spray not too long ago. Sadly, he missed all of them and accidently got the counter protesters, but at least he tried.
Last year, Phelps was protesting at Omaha Central High School. A buncha kids starting to counter demonstrate and started throwing food and shit at them. For some reason, Omaha’s finest didn’t really step in to intervene – go figure.
I could go on for hours about Phelps – I hate everything he and his followers stand for.
I don’t think even hell will take him.
I had the pleasure of picketing Phelps last year at a funeral. I went with my very gay bff, we had fun. His sign said, “We hate in others what we fear in ourselves”. Mine said, “I don’t care if he IS dead, I still want to impeach Nixon!”
We yelled, “hip, hip hooray; you know someone who’s gay. You don’t know it, he doesn’t show it. He was born that way”. Someone should convene a sanity hearing on the whole nest of them.
I hate Fred Phelps too. That guy is a self-hating and raging psychopath. His obsession with homosexuality makes me think he is a closeted homosexual. He reminds me Charles Manson or Jim Jones. He ranks right up there with Osama bin Laden, Lori Drew, and South Hadley 6.
I wouldn’t doubt if he was in the closet. I hate him. Him and his little group provoke people so they can sue them. If you’ve not heard of the Patriot Guard group they are awesome, they go to any funeral upon the request of the family and form a line with Flags so the family doesn’t have to see Phelps and his family’s hateful messages. And USS Yorktown, you know he actually wrote Sadaam before he was hanged and thanked him for being the only Muslim nation that allowed christianity? He’s anti-Sweden but Pro-Iraq, I guess. I read that Phelps had a son that died of A.I.D.S but I don’t know how true that really is.
Phelps did write a letter to Saddam Hussein. He later turned against him. He is also anti-Semitic and has been trending towards it as of late. None of Phelps’s children have AIDS. However, some have defected because of abuse or got sick of the hate.
Defectors
Phelps Children
Mark Phelps
Nate Phelps
Catherine Phelps
Dorotha Phelps Bird
Grandchildren
Joshua Phelps-Roper-Defected
Sara Phelps
Sharon Phelps
Lauren Drain-Ex-communicated
They like to disown any member who leaves. Phelps has a younger sister named Martha Phelps Capron, who is estranged from him.
Addicted To Hate
http://www.blank.org/addict/
Great read and very depressing.
Lauren Drain Story
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/raised-hate-kids-westboro-baptist-church/story?id=10809348&page=3
More On Nate Phelps
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/nate-phelps-westboro-church-exclusive/story?id=10555603
The Phelpses also have illegitimate children, notably Shirley Phelps-Roper, whose name is Samuel Phelps-Roper. Also, Jonathan Phelps has illegitimate children. I would not be surprised if there are more. I think Fred Phelps himself has illegitimate children.
Shirley Phelps-Roper Has An Illegitimate Son
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/serious-documentary-maker-is-keith-allen-having-a-laugh-454048.html
Fred Phelps pisses me off as much as Osama bin Laden, Joran van der Sloot, South Hadley 6, Lori Drew, and Elsa Baker.
Thank you for the Addicted to Hate link, I’m just on Chapter 6 right now. It’s fascinating, but absolutely shocking. I knew the guy was awful, but wow.
“Respect the children”
Seriously?
WTF! You can’t tell me this shit assed defender actually suggested you are disrespecting this predators offspring by printing the truth ? LMFAO! Some one should have told ol’ Major Nasty Pants that he needs to respect other peoples children enough not to plot to rape and molest them. This is disturbing…
Thank you! You summed it up very nicely! lol
How about we infect with some nasty disease like Ebola?
I have a question….do the people who vote in these polls really think there is a hell that these people are going to? Nothing will ever bring justice to the victims I read about on PYSIH, so I just wanted to know (and I know there obviously won’t be a consensus on this since everyone has their own ideals and beliefs) if anybody actually believes these sick people are going to “meet their fate” after they die…? May be a stupid question, but just thought I’d ask….
I occasionally vote but I don’t believe in Hell as the opposite to Heaven, demons with pitchforks, etc. I generally vote because if there WAS a place like that, I would send these fuckers there :)
I’d like to believe that these people are living their own personal hell but I think that a lot of them are either too selfish or too stupid to realise they’re actully there. And I was trying to figure out what they would be reincarnated as, but I can’t think of anything truly deserving.
Yeah I would imagine that’s the general opinion on here, I suppose. I always vote on the polls but don’t think they are actually going to hell, just like you said, hopefully living their own hell every day after karma has caught up with them.
Hmmm….maybe they’ll be reincarnated as an anal bead or something equally gross? (Pineapple express reference) But something tells me that these sickos wouldn’t mind that too much….
I believe in Hell. And most of the people in these articles will be going there. I’m excited by that possibility, so I’ll probably be going to Hell, too, but whatever lol
Nah, I don’t on the poles.
I left out a word on purpose for you to fill in the blank lol. That should have been, Nah, I don’t VOTE on the poles. I have a migraine and I’m not thinking as clearly as I usually am.
You’re a much more responsible person than me, Max. I’d be posting the scumbags email address! Although you can pretty much guarantee the person who sent it will check back here every day and read everything everyone says anyway…
to max the cat, i would like to publish a story (very personal to me) but dont know how to go about it. i truly believe it is hell worthy & believe you would feel the same. please e-mail me
So .. If I go and steal something from the store up the street, and they catch me, can I scream “DON’T CALL THE COPS!! I’LL GET DIAREAH!!!”, do they have to let me go??
Man.. oh.. man…
bahhahahahahahhahhahahhhahahaha!!!! GOOD POINT
Okayyyyyyyyy,I get it lol.C-mon where’s the camera lol? This is a joke right? RIGHT ????? Please tell me this is really a joke!
If I was close enough, I would put one of those fake cans of peanuts with the snake that pops out on this fucker’s porch. Problem solved and as far as I know, playing a little joke on people is not illegal…
What a crock! He MIGHT die because of stress related to a trial, so let’s not try him? Pppffftt. I know where I’m moving to commit a buncha crimes!
Why did they think he should get a pass in the first place?!